Turning out 24/7, what do you wait for?

Mine are out 22/7 all year round (in for a couple of hours each morning for breakfast, a snooze and a munch of hay).

I don’t have summer and winter fields as such, I strip graze over winter out into standing foggage. It’s always a few days either side of Badminton in early May when the grazed winter grass suddenly takes off and I need to fence them off in their equicentral summer to autumn grazing.

The grass goes mental over the course of a week.

Means I never have to turn them out on ‘rested’ fields in spring which would scare me to death 😳.
 
Mine are out now as it's dry but they can be out for a few days then if it's torrential rain they come back in. This Winter they have been in at night the most since we moved here but I try to have them out as much as possible and just flex with the weather. I'm lucky to have hardstanding in front of the barn which is where I put the hay and they can stand in the middle of the barn if they want. My gelding is a bit of a bully so I can't leave the stable doors open although sometimes I just shut him in and let the mares have the choice. This has been a very long Winter!!
 
Dry fields that can feed them so good covering of grass. All spring/summer fields are rested for 6 months. No fixed date but usually April.
They stay out as long as possible and 2025 it was late November when they came in at night.
 
Currently have my 4 yo NF out 24/7 in large gelding herd, coblet out at night, in for a few hours respite from the mud and a munch, and O/H NF who had our 1st and hopefully only mild bout of lami is stable to sin bin to stable.
 
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